Saturday Tweets: Marie Kondo, Vanilla Hummus and Composting People

...XE via @Core77 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 13, 2019 The case against lawns https://t.co/t3ewxROgZl via @Curbed — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 13, 2019 Jews and Muslims, it is time we put our disagreements aside. This evil is too great, too evil. We must stand together against this, and see that in our demand for non-weird hummus, we can see each other’s shared heritage. Cousins, we need each other now more than ever. https://t.co/izVXdLl8...

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Putting Your Civic House in Order: How the Young Members of the Family Help

...l school grounds, attractive club houses, neat, trim, well-kept homes with lawns, vegetable and flower gardens, clean vacant lots, and flowers, wild and cultivated, everywhere in greatest profusion. But of even greater value than these physical things are the effects upon the individuals who wrought the change–the teachers, children and parents–and the community at large. To the teachers the contest gave an opportunity for carrying gardening instr...

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Plantain!

.... It’s exactly what we’d like to see more of–folks growing food instead of lawns and everyone sharing the abundance. While there’s a lot of banana trees in Los Angeles they tend not to yield edible fruit since our climate is not quite hot and humid enough. But plantains, judging from the delicious taste of the ones we fried up, are a different story. They do require a lot of water to grow, but greywater expert Art Ludwig calls bananas (the same fa...

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Mallow (Malva parviflora) an Edible Friend

...the fruit resembles a round of cheese), which grows in great abundance in lawns and parkways. Malva parviflora does not have an especially strong or exciting taste, but does make a pleasant addition to salads and can be cooked as a green. Both the leaves and the immature fruit are edible. An assortment of cooking ideas can be found on Of the Field, maintained by wild food author and self described “environmentarian” Linda Runyan. A Turkish blogge...

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Getting Ourselves Back to the Garden

...in underused, wasted space. What if we transformed those empty, never used lawns and parking lots into gardens and community spaces? This is exactly what the Environmental Changemakers did in collaboration with Holy Nativity Episcopal Church in Westchester, a suburb of Los Angeles near the airport. This past weekend a 10th anniversary party was held to celebrate the collaboration and recognize the leaders of the two organizations, Joanne Poyourow,...

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